@LouisIngenthron i think the reason for a rule like this is precisely because we know in the heat of some moments, rhetoric like this is popular, contributes to leaders’ political fortunes rather than harming them.

so, the wise thing for a democracy to do in cooler times is to democratically choose to prohibit it. 1/

@LouisIngenthron individually we understand that while we have a choice every moment, if we want to lose weight it’s better not to have chocolate in the house, to skip it at the store, even though of course no one forces us to open up our pantry and succumb to it. if someone claimed we should all tolerate chocolate in something like home minibars because that maximizes point-of-purchase choice, we’d understand that’s not actually pro freedom. /fin